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Chatelain, Jean-Bernard; Ralf, Kirsten; Bruno, Amable - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper studies how the assignment of patents as collateral determines the savings of firms and magnifies the effect of innovative rents on investment in research and development (R&D). We analyse the behaviour of innovative firms that face random and lumpy investment opportunities in R&D....

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The Determinants of Corporate Growth

Rosique, Francisco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Corporate Growth is a concept that has been widely treated in a specific way or as part of strategy theories, in definition and in econometric models and has also been studied in many different aspects and approaches. The author describes in depth the main variables affecting corporate growth...

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Technology, Growth and Trade: Schumpeterian Perspectives

Fagerberg, Jan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1988

uses the Schumpeterian model of innovation-diffusion as a framework for the study of "why growth rates differ" between …. Chapter 4, which focuses on the relation between innovation-diffusion, structural changes in world trade and export … material to discuss the implications of innovation-diffusion for changes in specialization patterns/intra-industry trade. The …

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An endogenous growth model with quality ladders and consumers’ heterogeneity

Marasco, Antonio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

This paper develops an endogenous growth model with quality ladders where consumers heterogeneity is assumed and is modelled through non homothetic preferences. We show that in such a model, unlike mainstream quality ladders models, the steady state equilibrium is characterised by a duopoly were...

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Switching from Patents to an Intertemporal Bounty in a Non-Scale Growth Model: Transitional Dynamics and Welfare Evaluation

Lin, Hwan C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The prize system for innovation has been criticized as impractical due to the lack of a workable formula or algorithm … can function to duplicate Pareto optimality. Under this system, any bountiable innovation is placed in the public domain …, and the prize of innovation is dynamically amortized in an infinitely time domain as periodic bounties paid to holders of …

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Switching from Patents to an Intertemporal Bounty in a Non-Scale Growth Model

Lin, Hwan C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The prize system for innovation has been criticized as impractical due to the lack of any workable formula or algorithm … can function to duplicate Pareto optimality. Under this system, any bountiable innovation is placed in the public domain …, and the prize of innovation is dynamically amortized in an infinite time domain as periodic bounties paid to holders of …

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How Do Firing Costs Affect Innovation and Growth when Workers' Ability is Unknown? – Employment Protection as a Burden on a Firm's Screening Process

Berdugo, Binyamin; Hadad, Sharon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper analyzes the implication of employment protection legislation on a firm's screening process. We present a model in which human-capital-intensive firms (high-tech) with imperfect information about their workers' type attempt during a trial period to identify those incompetent workers...

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Knowledge Spillovers, Absorptive Capacity and Growth: An Industry-level Analysis for OECD Countries

Bournakis, Ioannis; Christopoulos, Dimitris; Mallick, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

Given the decline in growth momentum in the manufacturing sector in many OECD countries, the role of knowledge-based capital has emerged as a key driver for sustained growth. While empirical studies on estimating knowledge spillovers have usually been undertaken at the country level, the...

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Natural Land Productivity, Cooperation and Comparative Development

Litina, Anastasia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This research advances the hypothesis that natural land productivity in the past, and its effect on the desirable level of cooperation in the agricultural sector, had a persistent effect on the evolution of social capital, the process of industrialization and comparative economic development...

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The Role of Information Communication Technology and Economic Growth in Recent Electricity Demand: Fresh Evidence from Combine Cointegration Approach in UAE

Shahbaz, Muhammad; Sbia, Rashid; HAMDI, Helmi; Ur … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper investigates relationship between information communication technology (ICT), economic growth and electricity consumption using data of UAE over the period of 1975-2011.We have tested the unit properties of variables and the Bayer and Hanck combined cointegration approach for long run...

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